What about Living the Scientific Life?

Take a look at "The Wild Side," by Olivia Judson, which has appeared every weekday for four weeks on the New York Times website.

Well, it's neat to see my Bad Astronomy blog be included in the list, especially among such great blogs.

But, ah, ahem! I'm a scientist too, and not (just) a writer. Out of curiosity (really!) why was I put on the writer's list? Is it because my fabulous writing career has overshadowed my less-fabulous (OK, fine: mundane) scientific one?

Interesting list but I was sad to see that Genetics and Health (Technorati rank 7,084) wasn't on it. I may no longer be an academic scientist but still consider myself one.

Scienceblogs.com does pretty good !

Living the scientific life has technorati rank 6,684, but perhaps this corresponds to the new scienceblog, not the old one (GrrlScientist)...

One science blog, written by a journalist, which I enjoy is Cocktail Party Physics (currently being looked after by a guest blogger).

It's great to be the top psychology blog on the list, but I think mindhacks is probably actually a more popular blog, and it's written by scientists.

Anybody can maunder about politics - everything and its opposite are both true in social issues. Nearly anybody can bloviate about physics - string theory is economics without empirical restraints. (Economists aren't potty trained either, but they don't speculate about 10^500 acceptable water closets.)

Organic synthesis is ultimately elegant tough stuff - all that is beauty is accessible, it cannot be programmed into Big Blue, and a bold bunko artist cannot succeed as a creative genius (cf.: Jacques Derrida on purpose, Alan Sokal in satire).

http://blog.tenderbutton.com/
http://www.thechemblog.com/

What about Nobel Intent? Written by three scientists, Nobel Intent would rank #8 given your criteria of using Technorati ratings.

Just how reliable is Technorati, anyway? Wouldn't blog statistics such as unique visits be more telling? It's also surprising how medical blogs are practically left out. Doctors aren't scientists, eh?

One would expect from a meticulous publication such as Nature to come up with more scrutinizing (more scientific?) methodologies.

I agree with Ruth Shaffer. The best is not always the most popular. My favorite scientific blogs:

www.theoildrum.com
www.greencarcongress.com
www.medgadget.com

EM, in Canada

Hi folks,

Thanks for this list--lots of good reading there.

I'm not sure whether the Mind Hacks blog qualifies:

http://mindhacks.com

It began as a site for the book of the same name (disclaimer: I'm a co-author of the book) but thanks primarily to Vaughan and clutch of other working scientists, it has become a general blog for mind and brain news and commentary (neuroscience, cog psych, etc).

And it does pretty well at Technorati too! (I'm allowed to promote because I rarely post there anymore and it has become a great resource in its own right :)

http://technorati.com/blogs/mindhacks.com

best, Matt

Thanks for including "In the Pipeline". Using Technorati for this kind of ranking has its problems, though - in my case, there are two URLs that lead to the site (pipeline.corante.com and corante.com/pipeline). Technorati doesn't have a way to combine these, so my ranking comes out artificially low. I get the impression that many other people have a similar situation. . .

I'm not sure if I fill all your criteria for being an author of a science blog. After all, I'm an engineer, not a scientist. But my blogs explore the frontiers of science and technology -- and are better ranked than some of the "pure" science blogs you've included in your Top 50 science blogs.

ZDNet's Emerging Technology Trends is ranked at #3395 by Technorati while Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends is ranked at #7361.

But thank you for pointing out that science blogs have a wide readership.
Roland Piquepaille.

"Oh, please spare us the "atheists are religious too" argument. It's nonsense, and only makes you look stupid."

Look I'm not religious, but I'd really like to know how any scientist can honestly say he knows something doesn't exist.

I went there because I thought it would be good since it was listed in nature. I was hoping to learn something and what do I see?

2 worthless articles on that fool ann coulter. And by worthless I mean even though they were about an babbling idiot they still displayed no content.

4 articles making jokes about religion including one titled:
-What's the difference between a pope and a frill-necked lizard?

I just don't think this behavior represents the scientific community very well. Honestly I don't see how you can possibly list that blog as a "science" blog when it has a title of "....ejaculations from a godless liberal".

realclimate is very high quality.
Pharyngula is crap.

Well since we're plugging some science blogs here ;)
http://www.omnibrain.org
is an "entertainment" science blog (neuroscience specifically)

Nice article, I'll check the top 5 blogs on your list.

Yet, you might be interested and take a look at my sozlog, which discusses phenomena of economy, society and culture from a sociological perspective. Most articles are written in German, so far, but I intensify my blogging activity in English.

You missed Botany Photo of the Day:
http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/

It would have ranked number 35 on your list.

I think the Technorati ranks are quite skewed with regards to blogs the recently moved to science blogs. And from my own experience with Technorati, "recently" in their terms can be weeks... They're not always up to date, and have a very hard time handling moved sites or merged domains (two urls both leading to the same site). I tried that once and suddenly I had 0 incoming links, said the mighty Technorati website. Then I had to wait about a month for support, so you can see why I don't believe in Technorati's numbers very much.

Like Phil Plait, I also have to confess that I'm a scientist, although now retired from archaeology and happy to be wearing the cloak of 'writer'.

But I'm beginning to think imposed categories don't work very well on the Internet (I've had some trouble with that myself). I wonder if some of this discussion doesn't reflect the rise of folksonomies.

Thanks for listing my blog here!

Kris

Technorati, whats that? :)

Seriously though, I just signed up w/ Techno, after reading this article. My blog, on ScienceBlogs (www.scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle), deserves a fighting chance if thats your metric!

It's nice to see you're including social scientists in your rubric (namely, Savage Minds).

http://www.angelfire.com/blog/test1idd/

good ideea

I have a community science blog primarily for the medical community, but I may expand it to the general math and science community. It uses distributed moderation to try to increase transparency in peer review.
http://www.mashdot.com

samivesusu

Here's a blog written by cosmetic chemists that certainly qualifies to be on the list. It's all about uncovering everyday science & cutting through the marketing hype.

The Beauty Brains

What are the goals of Nature?

Evolution
Survival
Procereation
Other

Umm… you should probably add post or entry as the individual units that make up a blog. Help educate the MySpace crowd that says: “I wrote a new blog today!” when they really mean to say that they wrote/posted/published a new entry.

This site looks so nice...

Yet, you might be interested and take a look at my sozlog, which discusses phenomena of economy, society and culture from a sociological perspective. Most articles are written in German, so far, but I intensify my blogging activity in English.

nice site

All info in german...
P.S. the best scientific blog: www.theoildrum.com

Mad Science Mama is well written. No political commentary-- just recent research in biology, especially genetics, evolution, and health of women and children.

So nice sites posted here, mhow about links exchange?

Great blog, keep it going !

JS
http://www.mymathforum.com

Help educate the MySpace crowd that says: “I wrote a new blog today!” when they really mean to say that they wrote/posted/published a new entry.

Scienceblogs.com does pretty good !

good ideea

Just how reliable is Technorati, anyway? Wouldn't blog statistics such as unique visits be more telling? It's also surprising how medical blogs are practically left out. Doctors aren't scientists, eh?

One would expect from a meticulous publication such as Nature to come up with more scrutinizing (more scientific?) methodologies

What about Nobel Intent? Written by three scientists, Nobel Intent would rank #8 given your criteria of using Technorati ratings.

It's great to be the top psychology blog on the list, but I think mindhacks is probably actually a more popular blog, and it's written by scientists.

Top Science Blogs all english.

Thanks for listing blog here!

I am not sure if we can think them as scientists,but there are thousands of blogs written by the uni students..They are sometimes seems to be more popular then scientific ..But i guess this will the attention of the public to science...That's why they ought to be listed too..

What about Nobel Intent? Written by three scientists, Nobel Intent would rank #8 given your criteria of using Technorati ratings

One would expect from a meticulous publication such as Nature to come up with more scrutinizing (more scientific?) methodologies

Help educate the MySpace crowd that says: “I wrote a new blog today!” when they really mean to say that they wrote/posted/published a new entry.

It's great to be the top psychology blog on the list, but I think mindhacks is probably actually a more popular blog, and it's written by scientists.

Anybody can maunder about politics - everything and its opposite are both true in social issues. Nearly anybody can bloviate about physics - string theory is economics without empirical restraints. (Economists aren't potty trained either, but they don't speculate about 10^500 acceptable water closets.)

Organic synthesis is ultimately elegant tough stuff - all that is beauty is accessible, it cannot be programmed into Big Blue, and a bold bunko artist cannot succeed as a creative genius (cf.: Jacques Derrida on purpose, Alan Sokal in satire).

It's great to be the top psychology blog on the list, but I think mindhacks is probably actually a more popular blog, and it's written by scientists.

I am not sure if we can think them as scientists,but there are thousands of blogs written by the uni students

Anybody can maunder about politics - everything and its opposite are both true in social issues but I think mindhacks is probably actually a more popular blog, and it's written by scientists.

Anybody can maunder about politics - everything and its opposite are both true in social issues. Nearly anybody can bloviate about physics - string theory is economics without empirical restraints

I have a community science blog primarily for the medical community, but I may expand it to the general math and science community. It uses distributed moderation to try to increase transparency in peer review.

Yet, you might be interested and take a look at my sozlog, which discusses phenomena of economy, society and culture from a sociological perspective. Most articles are written in German, so far, but I intensify my blogging activity in English.

Great blog, keep it going !

hi
very nice work
thanks

I am not sure if we can think them as scientists,but there are thousands of blogs written by the uni students

The blog list is helpful. Thanks.

I think these blog is really useful for new comers and Excellent resource list.

VoIP has come a long way since 1998 and it is great to be returning to Stockholm at a time and to a place where VoIP is happening across broadband, wireless and legacy wireline networks.

Most articles are written in German, so far, but I intensify my blogging activity in English.

I think these blog is really useful for new comers and Excellent resource list.

One would expect from a meticulous publication such as Nature to come up with more scrutinizing (more scientific?) methodologies

I have a community science blog primarily for the medical community, but I may expand it to the general math and science community. It uses distributed moderation to try to increase transparency in peer review.

Hello ,
I don't think those are chosen objectively.I have an amaeteur blog.But that's more scientific.
regards ..

Hi
I tihnk those are chose good. I have an perfect blog.
regards...

I think these blog is really useful for new comers and Excellent resource list

Conguralations… Super service, thank you.

Here's a blog written by cosmetic chemists that certainly qualifies to be on the list. It's all about uncovering everyday science & cutting through the marketing hype

excelent all

Interesting list but I was sad to see that Genetics and Health (Technorati rank 7,084) wasn't on it. I may no longer be an academic scientist but still consider myself one.

[Editor's note: thanks to all contributing to this blog thread. Please note that this story is now quite old, and was based on technorati rankings at the time of publication only - it has not been updated. Thanks!]

I am not sure if we can think them as scientists,but there are thousands of blogs written by the uni students..They are sometimes seems to be more popular then scientific ..But i guess this will the attention of the public to science...That's why they ought to be listed too..

Yes,
is an "entertainment" science blog (neuroscience specifically)

I have a community science blog primarily for the medical community, but I may expand it to the general math and science community. It uses distributed moderation to try to increase transparency in peer review.

Great for this i search many hours now i found

Thanks

Timo

Help educate the MySpace crowd that says: “I wrote a new blog today!” when they really mean to say that they wrote/posted/published a new entry.